Do you use a travel agent for reward bookings?

[FlyingFiona]

I'm in favour of booking travel through an agent but had never considered doing it for reward bookings. I didn't think you could until just before COVID hit when a TA told me once that he does. So I'm curious, do you use a TA for reward bookings?

 

[Daver6]

I've used Award Flight Assist - Frequent Flyer Solutions to help me find the flights I needed for a OWA. They can't book on my behalf though but I thought it was money very well spent.

How does a travel agent book award flights for you without you handing over your password?

 

[FlyingFiona]

I honestly don’t now how they help but he said he could (perhaps it’s that you pay a fee more to be of assistance in case of unexpected changes?)

 

[SeatBackForward]

I hope its not just telling you which flights have availability to redeem reward seats on - you can get that info yourself online!

 

[maia200]

As Daver6 mentioned above, I have also used Award Flight Assist - Frequent Flyer Solutions . There is a charge for it based on where you plan to travel and how many seats you require etc but they have many options that I had not even thought of. You do have to make the booking yourself but they give you the flights and information available at the time - you have to act quick though. Although you can get that information on line you do not always have the time or energy to spend doing it.

 

[tdimdad]

I've used Award Flight Assist - Frequent Flyer Solutions to help me find the flights I needed for a OWA. They can't book on my behalf though but I thought it was money very well spent.

How does this work in practice? You give them the parametres (where, when, etc), they find potential good (and cost-effective) options, and return you with a list of flights to book. Then you have to rush to your FF airline site to attempt to book the whole lot.

Given how buggy QF multi-city search can be, what are the chances you can successfully burn QFF points that way?

 

[Daver6]

How does this work in practice? You give them the parametres (where, when, etc), they find potential good (and cost-effective) options, and return you with a list of flights to book. Then you have to rush to your FF airline site to attempt to book the whole lot.

Given how buggy QF multi-city search can be, what are the chances you can successfully burn QFF points that way?

Pretty much as described. Although I call the airline.

It's worked well for me in the past,but that was prior to Covid.

 

[Princess Fiona]

I don’t use a TA for Award bookings but my TA looks after any that I have made.